Art/Artistic: For the artistic link to rowing, we thought that one of the main ideas would be how rowing suits are designed so that they are unique and identify a school,team or country. Rowing suits are a main link to identifying other schools. Most rowing suits for schools are usually the same colours and designs as the boats that they row in e.g. Auckland Boys Grammar's rowing suits are blue with yellow and their boats are completely yellow with blue/black riggers.
PLAN: We are going to construct some 3-D rowing boats (8's) and atleast one of them will be able to come apart. We will hopefully design 3 boats all made out of different materials.
Religious: For the religious link to rowing, we thought of the idea about the tradition in the sport. Traditions such as medals being presented by the Navy, and how the same regattas have been happening annually every year for many years and other traditions in different schools. Also, there is always a drug testing at big regattas for premier rowers to make sure that no-one is cheating or on steroids to make themselves stronger. Sometimes regattas have formal ceramonies for presenting medals if it is a big regatta with a lot of athletes involved.
PE/Health: For the PE and Health link to rowing, we thought that there were some good links to the subject. For example, with rowing you need to keep fit by keeping up with training schedules and be able to do races without getting too tired - always being at your peak preformance level. Also, eating and sleeping well and not overdoing it is a big factor for keeping in good shape and not getting injuries. And most importantly, always keeping hydrated and your 'fuel tank' full by eating a sturdy amount of carbs and proteins.
Science: For the Science link to rowing, we came up with a number of ideas related to the sport so we have narrowed it down a bit to the main links. We thought that a main link to the sport through science was about the muscles in the body. Muscles are a very important part of the technique of rowing, making sure that the rower is using the right muscles and not injuring themselves. Also, after rowing there is an amount of lactic acid build up (that makes the sore feeling in your legs when you excercise) which can be a bad thing for rowers if they do not know what to do to get it out of their systems.
Targets For week 3 23-28th March
1-Review week 2 targets
-ensure reflection on wiki
-transfer incomplete targets to week 3 goals/targets
2-Dossier of examples on Collaboration webs
3-Complete Template
4-Finish artistic views (clay boat)
5-Plan and then begin our video clip
6- Make our wiki more attractive and exciting
Target For This Week - 16th - 21st March
1- Set up wiki page
2- Dossier of examples of Collaboration Webs 3- Decide on our context -launch/announce on wiki- DONE
4- Read assesment brief
5- Discuss curriculum links with subject teacher -record on wiki
6- List of IT skills your group needs to learn
7- Watch video clip "videoclip" 16th March
8- Read Chapter 1 "Grown Up" Curricular Links (click on this as it is a link)
Music: For music we thought the things realted to music and rowing where encouraging your team using chants and songs. These can also have a negative effect because some schools might mock other schools ( But Dio Rowing would never do such a thing!). Chants can also include details about the school, how they are the 'best' etc. Chants or songs can be helpful because it means you are proud of your team and can make your team feel more binded.
Technology Food: For a link between technolgy food and rowing there was one that was very bold which was the nutrition of rowers and how this can effect them. The nutrition rowers eat can have a huge effect on their crews peak preformance. When you row you need to have a large intake of protein,lots of fluids, calories, carbs, fats (not saturated) and calcium also taking vitamins can help alot. If you are a rower and have a good balanced diet you will be able to recover from workouts and season training more quickly and effectivley.
Technology: For a link between technology and rowing is the technical designs of row boats awhich also ties in with the history and how now many boats are now made out of carbon-fibre and how origainally boats were made out of wood. The technology of how the boat is designed is important because it will either make you go faster and glide more easily and smoothly in the water therefore makiing your team row better and winning! The technolgy of nthe sliding seats is also vital becasue if the seats in a race boat didn't slide it would effect the use of legs and the main power comes from your legs. The pars are another piece of technology imporatant to rowwing and how skulling oars and sweep oars are different in length and design, each design makes it easier for the typr of rowing.
Targets For week 3 23-28th March
1-Review week 2 targets
-ensure reflection on wiki
-transfer incomplete targets to week 3 goals/targets 2-Dossier of examples on Collaboration webs 3-Complete Template
4-Finish artistic views (clay boat)
5-Plan and then begin our video clip 6- Make our wiki more attractive and exciting 7- Finish our mock website Target For week 2 16th - 21st March
1- Set up wiki page 2- Dossier of examples of Collaboration Webs 3- Decide on our context -launch/announce on wiki
4- Read assessment brief
5- Discuss curriculum links with subject teacher -record on wiki
6- List of IT skills your group needs to learn
7- Watch video clip "video clip" 16th March
8- Read Chapter 1 "Grown Up"
IT Skills we need to learn...(19th March)
-how to add extra pages and not have them appear on the sidebar of our wiki.
-how to add videos to our wiki pag.-to make videos on web-based programmes
-how to customise our videos using all different programmes
-how to add links to our wiki.
This is the template for the project. We will be editing it and filling it out as we go through the project.
Background
OVERVIEW: Rowing is a team-building sport in which athletes race each other on rivers,lakes or harbours in boats that are specially designed to be streamlined to move through water easily. Rowing boats have different designs depending on how many people are in the boat (1,2,4 or 8 people). Also there are two different types of rowing: Sculling and sweep oar rowing. Sculling is when each rower has one blade in each hand, whereas sweep oar is when each rower has only one oar. For example: This is a picture of a woman sculling. This is a picture of a men's 8 rowing speer oar.
Also, in rowing there are big competitions called regattas. Regattas are 'race days' where there are a large series of races that take place. Some regattas are longer than one day and you can qualify into different finals depending on where you come in a race (Maadi Cup Nationals, North Island Secondary Schools Champs etc.)
HISTORY: Rowing is one of the oldest trades in the world and evolved to becoming a sport in about 1500BC. The sport was traditionally only done by men, but in more recent years, women have been allowed to row and compete as they wish. An Egyptian inscription of about 1430 BC, records that the warrior "Amenhotep II" was also known for his feats of rowing. So as you can see, rowing started to become a sport back in Egyptian times, which means that it is very old! As time went by, the construction of boats got more intense and complicated. People started to discover new ways and materials that could be used to build a boat that was balanced enough and stream-lined enough to glide through water at great speeds. In the past, boats would have been constructed by simple tools and by workers, whereas now boats can be made by machines and made out of industrial materials like carbon-fibre.
Examples
These are some examples of sweep oar rowing and what crews can be made.
These are some examples of sculling boats and what crews can be made.
Names of some crew types: Sculling: Single Scull (1x), Double Scull (2x), Quadruple Scull (4x+) or Coxless Quadruple Scull (4x-), Octuplet Scull or Octi (8x+). Sweep Oar: Pair (2-), Four (4+) or Coxless Four (4-), Eight (8+)
Junior/Primary
Rowing is involved in primary education in some different ways to middle/high school. One of the ways that children are being educated in primary schools about rowing could be when the Olympic Games are happening, children usually spend some time talking about the Olympics and the athletes. I know from personal experience that schools talk about rowing and rowers that have competed in the Olympics and won medals. When children talk about this, usually they find those rowers inspirational and it inspires them to take up rowing in the future.
Also rowing is related to primary education because it can help children learn about science because they could be learning about how different muscles are used in different sports and comparing them to rowing because rowing is one of the only sports that uses every single muscle in your body.
Therefore, we think rowing is a great way for people to become interested in the sporting world and how it works.
Middle/ High School
Rowing is involved particularly with middle/high school because this is usually the time that teenagers take up rowing, because it is harder for people to keep fitter at this age. More and more teenagers are getting interested in the sport because they want to be like other rowers and sometimes people take up the sport to meet new people from other schools. Teenagers like to socialize a lot and when they start rowing they can become like a family with the other team members in their club. Rowing is also good for competitive people because it is a team-building sport and when people are racing against other teams it gives them a chance to be really competitive and have the competitive drive to win races.
Therefore, we think that rowing is a good way for teenagers from different schools to start a career in rowing and to make new friends.
Team Members
Our team members are:
Bianka (Nicolette) Covic & Elena (Felicity Rose) Glengarry.
For this project, Bianka is the editor and I am the Lead Researcher. We are both doing most of the project together because Bianka's laptop was at ISS for some time getting a new screen.
We have to do most of the project very quickly because I am leaving to go to the Maadi Cup for rowing for the whole of the last week of the project (30th March - 3 April)
Reflection page
Art/Artistic: For the artistic link to rowing, we thought that one of the main ideas would be how rowing suits are designed so that they are unique and identify a school,team or country. Rowing suits are a main link to identifying other schools. Most rowing suits for schools are usually the same colours and designs as the boats that they row in e.g. Auckland Boys Grammar's rowing suits are blue with yellow and their boats are completely yellow with blue/black riggers.
PLAN: We are going to construct some 3-D rowing boats (8's) and atleast one of them will be able to come apart. We will hopefully design 3 boats all made out of different materials.
Religious: For the religious link to rowing, we thought of the idea about the tradition in the sport. Traditions such as medals being presented by the Navy, and how the same regattas have been happening annually every year for many years and other traditions in different schools. Also, there is always a drug testing at big regattas for premier rowers to make sure that no-one is cheating or on steroids to make themselves stronger. Sometimes regattas have formal ceramonies for presenting medals if it is a big regatta with a lot of athletes involved.
PE/Health: For the PE and Health link to rowing, we thought that there were some good links to the subject. For example, with rowing you need to keep fit by keeping up with training schedules and be able to do races without getting too tired - always being at your peak preformance level. Also, eating and sleeping well and not overdoing it is a big factor for keeping in good shape and not getting injuries. And most importantly, always keeping hydrated and your 'fuel tank' full by eating a sturdy amount of carbs and proteins.
Science: For the Science link to rowing, we came up with a number of ideas related to the sport so we have narrowed it down a bit to the main links. We thought that a main link to the sport through science was about the muscles in the body. Muscles are a very important part of the technique of rowing, making sure that the rower is using the right muscles and not injuring themselves. Also, after rowing there is an amount of lactic acid build up (that makes the sore feeling in your legs when you excercise) which can be a bad thing for rowers if they do not know what to do to get it out of their systems.
Targets For week 3 23-28th March
1-Review week 2 targets
-ensure reflection on wiki
-transfer incomplete targets to week 3 goals/targets
2-Dossier of examples on Collaboration webs
3-Complete Template
4-Finish artistic views (clay boat)
5-Plan and then begin our video clip
6- Make our wiki more attractive and exciting
Target For This Week - 16th - 21st March
1- Set up wiki page
2- Dossier of examples of Collaboration Webs
3- Decide on our context -launch/announce on wiki- DONE
4- Read assesment brief
5- Discuss curriculum links with subject teacher -record on wiki
6- List of IT skills your group needs to learn
7- Watch video clip "videoclip" 16th March
8- Read Chapter 1 "Grown Up"
Curricular Links (click on this as it is a link)
Music: For music we thought the things realted to music and rowing where encouraging your team using chants and songs. These can also have a negative effect because some schools might mock other schools ( But Dio Rowing would never do such a thing!). Chants can also include details about the school, how they are the 'best' etc. Chants or songs can be helpful because it means you are proud of your team and can make your team feel more binded.
Technology Food: For a link between technolgy food and rowing there was one that was very bold which was the nutrition of rowers and how this can effect them. The nutrition rowers eat can have a huge effect on their crews peak preformance. When you row you need to have a large intake of protein,lots of fluids, calories, carbs, fats (not saturated) and calcium also taking vitamins can help alot. If you are a rower and have a good balanced diet you will be able to recover from workouts and season training more quickly and effectivley.
Technology: For a link between technology and rowing is the technical designs of row boats awhich also ties in with the history and how now many boats are now made out of carbon-fibre and how origainally boats were made out of wood. The technology of how the boat is designed is important because it will either make you go faster and glide more easily and smoothly in the water therefore makiing your team row better and winning! The technolgy of nthe sliding seats is also vital becasue if the seats in a race boat didn't slide it would effect the use of legs and the main power comes from your legs. The pars are another piece of technology imporatant to rowwing and how skulling oars and sweep oars are different in length and design, each design makes it easier for the typr of rowing.
Targets For week 3 23-28th March
1-Review week 2 targets
-ensure reflection on wiki
-transfer incomplete targets to week 3 goals/targets
2-Dossier of examples on Collaboration webs
3-Complete Template
4-Finish artistic views (clay boat)
5-Plan and then begin our video clip
6- Make our wiki more attractive and exciting
7- Finish our mock website
Target For week 2 16th - 21st March
1- Set up wiki page
2- Dossier of examples of Collaboration Webs
3- Decide on our context -launch/announce on wiki
4- Read assessment brief
5- Discuss curriculum links with subject teacher -record on wiki
6- List of IT skills your group needs to learn
7- Watch video clip "video clip" 16th March
8- Read Chapter 1 "Grown Up"
IT Skills we need to learn...(19th March)
-how to add extra pages and not have them appear on the sidebar of our wiki.
-how to add videos to our wiki pag.-to make videos on web-based programmes
-how to customise our videos using all different programmes
-how to add links to our wiki.
This is the template for the project. We will be editing it and filling it out as we go through the project.
Background
OVERVIEW: Rowing is a team-building sport in which athletes race each other on rivers,lakes or harbours in boats that are specially designed to be streamlined to move through water easily. Rowing boats have different designs depending on how many people are in the boat (1,2,4 or 8 people). Also there are two different types of rowing: Sculling and sweep oar rowing. Sculling is when each rower has one blade in each hand, whereas sweep oar is when each rower has only one oar. For example:
Also, in rowing there are big competitions called regattas. Regattas are 'race days' where there are a large series of races that take place. Some regattas are longer than one day and you can qualify into different finals depending on where you come in a race (Maadi Cup Nationals, North Island Secondary Schools Champs etc.)
HISTORY: Rowing is one of the oldest trades in the world and evolved to becoming a sport in about 1500BC. The sport was traditionally only done by men, but in more recent years, women have been allowed to row and compete as they wish. An Egyptian inscription of about 1430 BC, records that the warrior "Amenhotep II" was also known for his feats of rowing. So as you can see, rowing started to become a sport back in Egyptian times, which means that it is very old! As time went by, the construction of boats got more intense and complicated. People started to discover new ways and materials that could be used to build a boat that was balanced enough and stream-lined enough to glide through water at great speeds. In the past, boats would have been constructed by simple tools and by workers, whereas now boats can be made by machines and made out of industrial materials like carbon-fibre.
Examples
Names of some crew types:
Sculling: Single Scull (1x), Double Scull (2x), Quadruple Scull (4x+) or Coxless Quadruple Scull (4x-), Octuplet Scull or Octi (8x+).
Sweep Oar: Pair (2-), Four (4+) or Coxless Four (4-), Eight (8+)
Junior/Primary
Rowing is involved in primary education in some different ways to middle/high school. One of the ways that children are being educated in primary schools about rowing could be when the Olympic Games are happening, children usually spend some time talking about the Olympics and the athletes. I know from personal experience that schools talk about rowing and rowers that have competed in the Olympics and won medals. When children talk about this, usually they find those rowers inspirational and it inspires them to take up rowing in the future.
Also rowing is related to primary education because it can help children learn about science because they could be learning about how different muscles are used in different sports and comparing them to rowing because rowing is one of the only sports that uses every single muscle in your body.
Therefore, we think rowing is a great way for people to become interested in the sporting world and how it works.
Middle/ High School
Rowing is involved particularly with middle/high school because this is usually the time that teenagers take up rowing, because it is harder for people to keep fitter at this age. More and more teenagers are getting interested in the sport because they want to be like other rowers and sometimes people take up the sport to meet new people from other schools. Teenagers like to socialize a lot and when they start rowing they can become like a family with the other team members in their club. Rowing is also good for competitive people because it is a team-building sport and when people are racing against other teams it gives them a chance to be really competitive and have the competitive drive to win races.
Therefore, we think that rowing is a good way for teenagers from different schools to start a career in rowing and to make new friends.
Team Members
Our team members are:
Bianka (Nicolette) Covic & Elena (Felicity Rose) Glengarry.
For this project, Bianka is the editor and I am the Lead Researcher. We are both doing most of the project together because Bianka's laptop was at ISS for some time getting a new screen.
We have to do most of the project very quickly because I am leaving to go to the Maadi Cup for rowing for the whole of the last week of the project (30th March - 3 April)
Citations
Lactic AcidYouTube Videos
Muscles Used While Rowing